Thank you for your kind words Edster, I always feel like my English gets worse the longer I write
Thanks for linking Iain post, it is indeed one of the few places I had seen this type of swords dicussed before, when I started researching them.
Interesting to note that this type was attributed to the indefinite "kirdi" group before the Guduf attribution was proposed.
We can also link this conversation :
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=Guduf, in which one of those swords was initially described as "Fulbe" (which would make sense, as it seems like they were used in Fulbe communities), and was collected in Cameroon near the Central African Republic.